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The cold was our pride, the snow was our beauty. It fell and fell, lacing day and night together in a milky…
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I don't write about what I know: I write in order to find out what I know.
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You can’t put much on paper before you betray your secret self, try as you will to keep things civil.
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Memoir is trustworthy and its truth assured when it seeks the relation of self to time, the piecing of the shards of…
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Time, we like to say, cures all. But maybe the old saying doesn’t mean time heals. Time cures a secret in its…
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If nobody talks about books, if they are not discussed or somehow contended with, literature ceases to be a conversation, ceases to…
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Maybe being oneself is an acquired taste. For a writer it's a big deal to bow--or kneel or get knocked down--to the…
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Looking repeatedly into the past, you do not necessarily become fascinated with your own life, but rather with the phenomenon of memory.
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In memory each of us is an artist: each of us creates.
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Refuse to write your life and you have no life.
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Maybe being oneself is always an acquired taste.
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Our capacity to move forward as developing beings rests on a healthy relationship with the past. Psychotherapy, that widespread method for promoting…
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These days it seems the lyric impulse, so seemingly fragile, comes in for a lot of abuse-or simply a lot of mistrust.…
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